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Odd Truth, March 1 - 14

Hot Dog!

A tractor-trailer and thousands of Ball Park Beef Frank hot dogs litter an area of U.S. Highway 36, west of Utica, Mo., Feb. 28, after the truck hit a flashing road barrier and wrecked.

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'Stuart's Event'

Amateur astronomer Dr. Leon Stuart took this photograph of the moon Nov. 15, 1953, showing what he believed to be a massive fireball rising from the Moon's face. Scientists have now identified a crater likely left by the collision, known as "Stuart's Event." Stuart is the first and only human to witness and document the impact of an asteroid-sized body on the Moon.

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Dog Gone

Sara McBurnett is seen sitting with her dog, Leo, in an undated photo. Andrew Burnett, the man who threw the dog to its death in a fit of road rage and was sentenced to three years in jail, is suing McBurnett and a newspaper, alleging mental anguish and seeking more than $1 million in damages.

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Gas Station Massage

Visitors, in pink, have themselves massaged at a gas station in Bangkok. Bangchak Petroleum started the massage service, the first of its kind in Thailand. The company plans to open a total of 15 such centers. The 25-minute massage costs $5.

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Holy Hokey Pokey

Guests of Showboat Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, N.J., try to break the Guinness world record for the largest Hokey Pokey, which stands unbroken at 6,785. The group, numbering 5,273, came to celebrate Fat Tuesday, March 4.

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Jolly Good Scrum

Britain's Prince Charles holds up the ceremonial ball before starting the ancient Royal Shrovetide Football game, in Ashbourne, England, March 5. The rough game involves a heaving scrum of several hundred bodies attempting to move the ball to one of two goal posts set three miles apart at opposite ends of the town.

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Stones In China

Chinese men gathered near a poster advertising the upcoming Rolling Stones concert in Beijing, China, March 6. The Rolling Stones may be coming to China to celebrate their 40th anniversary, but most Chinese don't know who they are, according to concert organizers. Until this year, not a single CD by the Stones had ever been officially released in the world's most populous nation.

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Sardine Funeral

People dressed as mourners hold a dead sardine in a small coffin during "The burial of the sardine" ceremony in Madrid, March 5. The tradition comes from the royal court of Carlos III, when having taken some sardines with them for a picnic, the court found them to be spoiled and buried them in the Casa de Campo in Madrid. The tradition marks the end of Carnival and the beginning of Lent.

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Hooters Air

Bob Brooks, owner of Atlanta-based Hooters of America, faces reportersat Hartsfield International Airport, March 6. Hooters Air, an airline started by the restaurant chain famous for chicken wings and scantily-clad waitresses, began service from Atlanta to Myrtle Beach, S.C.

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Stalin N' Cryin'

Georgian Ilya Okruashvili, 83, cries in front of a portrait of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin at a gathering for the 50th anniversary of his death in Gori, Georgia, Stalin's hometown, March 5. Considered a brutal tyrant in the West, Stalin continues to be admired in the former Soviet Union for leading the country to victory in World War II.

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Femme Fatale

Russian female soldiers prepare to shoot with Kalashnikov rifles at a shooting range at the elite Tamanskaya division during the "Beauty in Epaulets" contest outside Moscow, March 5. The beauty contest aims to attract more women to the Russian army. Apart from their shooting skills, the contestants will be tested on their singing, ballroom dancing and cooking skills.

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Hip To Be Christ

Artist Steven Sawyer sits in front of a painting titled ''Call to Repentance'' in his Versailles, Ky., studio Feb. 7. Sawyer, who describes himself as a Christian with no denomination, paints modern day Christ as a muscular hippy-looking dude, with long hair, blue jeans and a tattoo.

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Lunch With Ronald

Two unidentified Muslim girls sit next to a Ronald McDonald statue outside a McDonald's restaurant in Kuala Lumpur Tuesday. Malaysia, a predominantly moderate Muslim country, has been one of Asia's most outspoken opponents of a U.S.-led strike against Iraq, warning that a war could alienate Islamic nations.

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Let Freedom Fry

Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, chairman of the House Administration Committee, right, and Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., announce that House cafeterias will replace "French" fries with "freedom" fries in protest of France's opposition to military action against Iraq.

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Hurricane Wind

A General Motors technician is dwarfed by the laminated spruce wood blade of a giant fan in Warren, Mich. It is part of the huge fan at the world's largest automotive wind tunnel at GM's Aerodynamics Laboratory. Powered by a 4500 horsepower electric motor, the 43 foot diameter fan produces hurricane-force winds for the development of future vehicle designs.

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Elephant Day

With keepers sitting on their necks, elephants eat various kinds of fruit during an elephant buffet at Maesa elephant camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand, March 13. About 70 elephants have been brought to participate in the ceremony to mark the country's Elephant Day.

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Car Of The Future

Mark Bentley, of the Lincoln Special Engineering Operations stands looks into the bullet-ridden front windshield of a Lincoln Town Car in Dearborn, Mich., March 12. The growing demand for vehicles that offer protection from grenade blasts and rifle fire has prompted the Ford Motor Co. and General Motors to enter the armored vehicle business.

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Monster Cheeto

Bryce Wilson, a disc jockey at KLGA-FM radio in Algona, Iowa, looks at a large, misshapen Cheeto, at the radio station where he works on March 13. Navy Petty Officer Mike Evans, stationed in Hawaii, bought a bag of Cheetos for his 3-year-old son and discovered the massive hunk of the cheesy food inside. The Cheeto was shipped to Algona.

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Raisin' Hell

Golden Gate Bridge District sergeant Danie Gomez, right, tells two men dressed as raisins and Peter DeYoung, the raisins' handler, that the costumes must be removed because they were creating a traffic hazard on the bridge, March 12, in San Francisco. Bridge spokeswoman Mary Currie says they needed a permit to stand on the sidewalk and wave to passing cars.